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Mental illness in youth: a common struggle
Go to a busy street in your community and count the next 25 adolescents who walk, bike, skateboard, stroll or saunter past. Odds are that two of those 25 kids (8.3% to be exact) would own up to having experienced 14 or more days in the last month that...
Tags: Learning Disability, Tourette Syndrome, Mental Health, Social Issues, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Texas pitcher gives teammate urine for drug test; test still fails
This story would be funny if it weren't so sad. Texas Longhorns pitcher Corey Knebel was suspended from the team on Friday because he substituted his urine sample for a teammate's to prevent the teammate from failing a drug test. Problem: Knebel's urine...
Tags: Social Sciences, Culture, Drugs and Medicines, TBS (tv network), National Collegiate Athletic Association
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Addressing girls' health needs at juvenile detention centers
Latrice lifts the sleeve of her gray sweatshirt to reveal small, dark lines — scars from slicing her forearm over and over to drown out pain from years of sexual abuse. She says she was an alcoholic, dropped out of school in the eighth grade and got...
Tags: Electronics, Asthma, Crime, Law and Justice, Marijuana Use, Mental Health
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Emergency room visits for ADHD medications rise sharply, report says
By Melissa HealyProblems with stimulant medications used to treat symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are sending an increasing number of Americans to emergency departments for treatment, a new government report warns. Between 2005 and 2010,...Tags: Social Sciences, Culture, Health, Pharmaceuticals, Adderall (drug)
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Rodent of the Week: Ritalin and Prozac -- a troubling combo for children?
Four in 10 kids who get a diagnosis of either depression or attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) end up getting both diagnoses sometime in their young lives. That means a lot will spend some part of their adolescence taking two psychiatric...Tags: Stress, Medical Research, Fluoxetine (drug), Science and Technology, Substance Abuse
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This is your mind on meditation: less wandering, more doing
The brains of experienced meditators appear to be fitter, more disciplined and more "on task" than do the brains of those trying out meditation for the first time. And the differences between the two groups are evident not only during meditation, when...Tags: Medical Research, Health, Vince Lombardi, Columbia University, Depression
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ADHD meds OK for kids' hearts, study says
Children taking stimulant medications to quell symptoms of attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) have a very low risk of suffering heart attack, stroke or sudden, unexplained death, and the probability that they will suffer such a crisis ...Tags: Medical Specialization, Medical Research, Food and Drug Administration, Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics
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Album review: N.E.R.D.'s 'Nothing'
Pop & HissWhether or not youâre a fan of the genre-juggling merits of N.E.R.D., itâs impossible to deny the group's influence on the Knux, Lupe Fiasco, Kid Cudi and dozens of others. During an era when rap reveled in steroids and squat-addled...... -
Over 100 major leaguers approved for ADD drugs
The Fabulous ForumFor the fourth consecutive season, more than 100 major league players were cleared to take drugs for attention deficit disorder under baseball's drug policy. The significant use of ADD drugs, perceived as a way to skirt baseball's amphetamine ban,... -
It's back: The food coloring/hyperactivity debate and the red bug
Opinion L.A.Back in the 1970s, when Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder was called (lower-cased) hyperactivity, worried parents attended many a meeting touting the Feingold Diet, which called for easing symptoms by having children eat foods without artificial... -
Internet addiction: a 21st century epidemic with some more at risk than others?
Booster ShotsPsychiatrists struggling to draft a new manual to diagnose mental illness haven't agreed it's a mental illness yet. But mental health professionals are already gauging, parsing and analyzing Internet addiction, which bears all the hallmarks of addictive... -
The mind unchecked: Is a toddler's lack of self-control key to early learning?
Booster ShotsAnyone who's seen a young toddler "at work" can tell that her learning style is a study in chaos. She moves from banging pots and pans to tormenting the cat to demanding food to bursting into tears when she can't......
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